Forest and Stream. 



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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 1894. 



( VOL. XLSI. — No. 17 



I No. 818 Broadway, New Yore. 



Editorial. 



Action by the Senate. 

 The Gilbert Trout Bill. 

 Snap Shots. 



The Sportsman Tourist. 



Dr Cook's Expedition to the 



North. 

 In Nez Perces Times. 



Natural History. 



A TTollnw-Hnrned Buck. 

 Notes on Foxes. 

 Woodchucks Afield. 



Game Bag and Gun. 



The South Jersey Deer Drive. 

 Stop the Sale of Game. 

 Dixie Land — vm 

 Bambliog in Wyoming. 

 Moose in Northern Maine. 

 In North Carolina Swamps. 

 Yellowstone Park Game. 



Sea and River Fishing. 



On the North Shore of Lake 



SuDerio" - . 

 Angling Notes. 

 Florida Tarpon. 

 Notes from Moosehead Lake. 



The Kennel. 



Boston Dog Show. 



CONTENTS. 



The Kennel. 



The Specialty Show. 

 Brunswick Fur Club. 

 A Bloodhouud Club. 

 Dog Chat. 



Answers to Correspondents. 

 Canoeing. 



Away "Up North." 



Bucket Wells in Canoe Yawls. 



News Notes. 



Yachting. 



Semiramis 



* . R. A. Rule on Length and Sail 



Area. 

 Rochester Y. C. 

 Clyde Yacht Building. 

 News Notes. 



Rifle Range and Gallery. 



Rifle at San Antonio. 

 Club Doings. 



Trap Shooting. 



Interstate at Pittsb'irg. 

 W iid's Princeton Budget. 

 Murphy vs Miller. 

 Pnooting at Willard's Park. 

 Drivers and Twisters. 

 Matches and Meetings. 



! Answers to Queries. 



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the game and forests of the Yellowstone Park that a sec- 

 tion should be added to this bill extending its provisions 

 over the area of the adjacent forest reservation, and 

 pains should be taken to clearly express the evident and 

 proper intent of the bill, that the penalties of this statute 

 and not of the laws of Wyoming, are to be enforced. It is 

 also desirable for many reasons that the Circuit Court 

 should appoint the commissioner and the deputy marshals 

 for whom the act makes provision. These officials should 

 be so appointed that they will n< t be swayed by local 

 influences. 



Senators Vest and Cary have or rned the thanks of all 

 friends of the Park by their prompt action, and the in- 

 terest which Congress at last appears to feel in the matter 

 is a hopeful sign. The interest was long in awakening, 

 but if, as now seems to be the case, Congress is aroused to 

 a realizing sense of the dangers which threatens one of 

 the choicest possessions of our people, it will be an easy 

 matter for the future to prevent the abuses which have 

 prevailed for twenty years; and the destruction of life 

 which has recently taken place will have been a blessing 

 instead of a bane if it shall induce Congress to pass the 

 laws so urgentlv needed. 



On the other hand it must not be imagined that this is 

 a time for any relaxing of effort by those who hope to see 

 the National Park preserved forever as the people's 

 pleasure ground. Good bills for the Park's protection 

 have passed the Senate before, and the matter has ended 

 there. This bill should meet a better fate and should be- 

 come a law of the land. 



ACTION BY THE SENATE. 

 We announced last week the passage in the House of 

 Representatives of Mr. Lacey's bill providing protection 

 for the Yellowstone National Park. This bill having gone 

 to the Senate was there amended so that, although it is 

 no longer the same bill that the House passed, it will 

 go back to the House as a House bill and will thus have 

 preference over a Senate bill proper, being treated as a 

 House bill with Senate amendments. 



As soon as the bill came to the Senate it was referred to 

 the Committee on Territories, and two days later Senator 

 Carey reported it in its changed form. In this form it 

 > icludes the best portion of the Vest bill, the Carey bill, 

 and the Lacey bill, and while there are some points in 

 which it might be improved, yet it is emphatically a meas- 

 ure that deserves support. 



On Monday last Senator Carey called up the bill in the 

 Senate, and after some discussion and some amendments 

 it passed that body. 



One of the most important changes in the bill as finally 

 passed is that its provisions apply to the whole Park in- 

 stead of to "the Yellowstone National Park in the State of 

 Wyoming" as Senator Carey's bill originally, read, since, 

 as narrow strips of the Park lie in Montana and in Idaho, a 

 law which limited protection to that part of the Park in 

 Wyoming would merely invite law breakers to settle on 

 such portions as are without the boundaries of that State, 

 and from these strips — where they would be safe from 

 punishment — they could at will raid the treasures of the 

 National Park. Another most useful amendment is 

 that increasing the penalty for receiving for transporta- 

 tion game or dead animals from $100 to $300. The in- 

 adequacy of the original penalty was obvious. 



The bill now goes to a conference committee of mem- 

 bers of both houses, and this body should have no diffi- 

 culty in determining the form which the measure shall 

 finally take. It is essential to the proper protection of 



1HE GILBERT TBOU1 BILL. 

 A second time the Gilbert trout bill .in the Massachu- 

 setts Legislature, having been passed by both houses, has 

 met a veto. The measure as passed this year provided 

 that trout artificially reared in private ponds and streams 

 might be sold for food during February and March (close 

 months) under such restrictions as might be prescribed by 

 the Fish Commissioners. Franklin, Hampden, Hamp- 

 shire and Berkshire counties were excepted. The meas- 

 ure met with determined opposition from the Massachu- 

 setts Fish and Game Protective Association. The brief of 

 objections prepared by the Association has been printed in 

 our columns. This opposition was maintained even after 

 the adoption of the measure by both houses, and to the 

 intelligent presentation of the case by the Association to 

 the Governor must be credited the executive action which 

 has come in the very gratifying form of a veto, which 

 reads as follows: 



dealing in game or engaged in the cold-storage business 

 may buy, sell or have in possession, and any person may 

 buy from such person, firm or corporation, and have in 

 possession if so bought, quail, from the fifteenth day of 

 October to the first day of May; and any such person, 

 firm or corporation may have in possession on cold stor- 

 age, quail, and may buy, sell and have in possession pin- 

 nated grouse, wild pigeons and any of the so-called shore, 

 marsh, or beach birds, or of the so-called duck species, at 

 any season, if said quail, grouse or other birds have not 

 been taken or killed in this Commonwealth contrary to 

 the provisions of this act." 



In practical working such a law invites the market 

 hunters of the West to ship tons of game to the East, and 

 it invites the game snarers of Massachusetts and neigh- 

 boring States to kill game in season and out of season. 

 There cannot be protection for game and an open market 

 for game at the same time. This, we repeat, is the 

 A B C of the matter; and everybody knows it. Experi- 

 ence demonstrates it, and the experience of New 

 England and of every other portion of the country has 

 by this time been so ample and so instructive that no 

 legislature can plead ignorance of the facts. The law as 

 adopted this year is a disgrace to Massachusetts. 



To the Honorable Senate and Souse of Representatives: 



I return herewith without my approval "Senate bill 66," entitled, 

 "An act to permit, during February and March, the sale for food of 

 trout artificially reared in this commonwealth," assigning for such 

 action the following reasons: 



First— The words in the act "artificially reared" are not precise and 

 definite, and are liable to various interpretations, meaning, on the one 

 hand, trout reared in hatcheries of elaborate construction, and, on the 

 other hand, trout reared in a greater or less degree on food artificially 

 supplied in ponds and streams or in inclosures of rude construction. 



Second — The difficulty of readily distinguishing artificially reared 

 trout from wild trout must make the administration of the proposed 

 law practically ineffective. 



Third— The opening of the closed season in the manner proposed, 

 even with restrictions prescribed by the Commissioners, would in 

 effect tend to bring in all kinds of trout, wild or artificially reared, 

 and to annul or impair the policy of preserving and protecting fish 

 and game which has become the established policy of the common- 

 wealth. 



Fourth— The discrimination in regard to the counties of Berkshire, 

 Hampden and Hampshire does not appear to be based on constitu- 

 tional principle or on good and sufficient grounds. 



[Signed,] Frederic T. Greenhalge. 



The absolute necessity of prohibiting the sale of fish 

 and game in the close season is the very A B C of protec- 

 tion. Gov. Greenhalge has done well to veto the Gilbert 

 bill. It is a pity that he did not recognize the same reas- 

 oning and adopt a similar course of action with respect to 

 the iniquitous measure which has received his approval 

 this month legalizing the sale of game in close time. At 

 this distance from the big dome in Boston, it is difficult to 

 reconcile the approval of the game bill with the veto of 

 the trout bill. The principle of one is identical with that 

 of the other. Moreover, the selling clauses of the game 

 law are inimical to the interests of the Commonwealth of 

 Massachusetts and of her sister States as well. 



As amended by the present Legislature the game law 

 is altogether in the interest of the Boston markets as a 

 "dumping ground" for game in season and out of season, 



SNAP SHOTS. 

 Mr. Armin Tenner recently propounded in our Natu- 

 ral History columns a theory to account for the disap- 

 pearance of the thousands of song birds imported into 

 America by the Cincinnati Acclimatization Society. Mr. 

 Tenner's theory was based upon the observations by 

 Heinrich Gatke, of the migratory flights of the birds of 

 Germany, whence the Cincinnati birds had been brought. 

 In the autumn migration, according to Gatke, the flight 

 is first westward and then south; from northern Germany 

 they fly across the North Sea, bound for England and 

 Ireland, and thence south by way of Gibraltar to Africa. 

 Following this instinct, argued Mr. Tenner, the birds lib- 

 erated in Ohio would first fly west, and mistaking the 

 Pacific Ocean for the North Sea would try in vain 

 to cross it, and finally fall exhausted into the sea 

 and perish. If this theory is based on facts, it 

 would appear that it must have application no less to 

 the German song birds put out on the Pacific Coast, and 

 that following the migratory instinct guiding them west- 

 ward these birds too should lose themselves in the Pacific. 

 But the fact is that the introduced song birds are now 

 returning to Oregon in flocks. Mr. Charles F. Pfluger, 

 the secretary of the society which imported the birds, 

 reports that many of the songsters are back from their 

 winter migration, including starlings, goldfinches, sky- 

 larks and black thrushes, all of which have become fix- 

 tures in the State. This certainly is extremely encour- 

 aging, and if the birds can be acclimatized on the Pacific 

 Coast, why may they not be added to the bird contingents 

 of other regions? 



Our canoeing columns this week contain the first chap- 

 ter of a report of an expedition made in the summer of 

 1893 "Away Up North" in the Laurentian Wilderness 

 of Canada. The report is of decided interest, for it notes 

 new waters to be explored, amid inspiring scenery and in 

 a country which, the canoeist, being the first comer, may 

 have ail to himself. What with the enterprise and push 

 of the sportsman tourist of the day, there are not left 

 many districts possessing the novelty and freshness of 

 this one. 



Mr. C. F. Amery, so widely known as the secretary of 

 the Audubon Society, now occupies a chair on the editorial 

 staff of the Literary Digest, a journal which is winning 

 its way as the busy man's weekly compendium of the 

 literature, science, art, politics and intelligence of the 

 day. 



Maryland needs a State sportsmen's association to be 

 constituted of non-partisan elements, irrespective of 

 political affiliations, bent only upon securing measures 

 which will meet the urgent requirements of the hour, 

 if game interests are to be served. 



Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who is fitting out a summer 

 excursion to Greenland, was the ethnologist of the Peary 

 Expedition of 1891-2. He is an enthusiast on the attrac- 

 tions of the North, and the itinerary he has laid out for 

 The law reads, "That any person, firm or corporation I this summer ia an inviting one. 



